Gerhard Schaffer wrote:
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Gerhard Schaffer schrieb:
But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message
P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin>sh
AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B0000, RegionSize 0x4D0000,
State 0x10000
P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for
cygwin's heap, Win32 error 6
that means that you've installed cygwin and that the cygwin version of
the sh.exe interfers with the one delivered with the installer.
You don't need cygwin for LyX. If possible deinstall it, deinstall
also LyX completely after that, reboot and then reinstall LyX.
This should fix your problem.
regards Uwe
No I do not have an installation of cygwin on that machine
I did some more test:
- even if I remove %PATH% and start sh from the lyx141\bin directory I
get the same error message
- I tried an installation on a Win2K machine and it works without any
problem
- I copied all the exe and dll files from that installation to the first
machine but there I get still the same error message and I cannot start sh
At some point it seems likely that you had some Cygwin files
installed on that system. Sometimes the error messages that
Windows provides are obscure like, no Win16 subsystem found.
But the error message is too specific for Cygwin to be
uninvolved. Do a search and see if you have more than one
file named sh.exe on the computer; search for a cygwin1.dll
Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec?
If so, remove it, then try again. Right-click on My Computer ->
Properties -> Advanced -> Environment variables
check on user and system for an environment variable that
has cygwin in the specification. This can happen if someone
else has used the computer besides you.
Regards,
Stephen
